Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-14
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

! 4SOOA0 A0Os
The price Of silver yesterday in New Yorl
! was 94K
The street-car-line surveyors laid out thu
) MeaderviIle route yesterday.
Will Powell cut quite q dash yesterday
with his two-in-hand.
A new fence ID being built round the Pro
testant cemetery.
Born-At Butte, May 10. to the wife ol
Fred Cole, . twelve-pound son.
j. l.. Kirk, route agent Of the Pacific Ex-
press Company, arrived in town yesterday.
The Pacific Express Company yesterday
shipped two bars Margaret Ann valued at
$3,168.
Bonner Mercantile Company's great
cheap sale OF dress goods will continue all
this week.
A good many new buildings are being
erected in the vicinity OF the Colorado
Smelter.
Quantities of wood are being fioated
down the Colorado Shelter flume, and
piled in that yard.
BENJAMIN Arnstein has returned to Butte
after an extended trip through the Flat
head country.
Colonel Broadwater, one of the most en-
ergetic, public-spirited and enterprising
men in Montana, was in the city ye< terday.
The Sheriff released the attachment on
VIM. Grubb's boarding house at Rocker
yesterday, owing to the existence Of a prior
lien.
Mrs. Shriver was called yesterday even
ming to .Melrose. where her daughter, Mrs.
McNauley, is quite i'll.
T. M. Moggary for Philadelphia and Mr..
Ames for Chica 60 took the Northern Paci-
fc train last night.
Mrs. Joe Bussiere and her sister. Mrs.
Garvis, of Montreal, left last night for
Montreal via Northern Pacific.
Rocker was rather under the weather
yesterday. Silver Bow, on the contrary,
was comparatively lively and busting.
Mrs. Judge Galbraith arrived in the city
last evening from Deer Lodge, n is the
guest of her friend, Mrs. Colonel Thornton.
The Sheriff yesterday levied an attach
ment IN the goods of VIM. Crabb. h runs
a boarding house at Rocker, for $1,4OO at
the suit of L. E. Cook.
MI. Lew Stein, the accomplished mixolo-
glst of the Comique, left for Warm Springs
last evening, to enjoy a weeks vacation at
that popular watering place.
The nimrods hereabout have come down
to ground squirrels, birds land such small
deer" on the adjacent flats in default OF
more respectable game.
Large receipts of wood at the Blue Bird
mill just now give employment to a good
many men in the work OF unloading it
from the cars.
John P. Burnham left by the Northern
Pacific last night for New York with the
Transvaal district of South Africa as his
ultimate destination.
Miss May SHELTON, of Constantine,
Michigan. sister of Superintendent Pics-
ring, of the Montana Copper Company,
arrive ed in Butte on a visit to her brother.
Walton & Nichols are now the sole agents
for VIM. j. Lemp's St. Louis keg and bot
tie beer. They expect two carloads in here
this week and have q refrigerator at the de-
pot in readiness.
R. M. Cobban yesterday filed a petition
for letters OF administration On the estate
OF R. J. Cobban, deceased, valued at i 200
on an insurance policy and 500 in per-
sonal effects.
A. Corey, in jail for jail breaking, the gen.
tleman acquitted on the gold-brick-swindle
charge last term, was yesterday released
by Sheriff Lloyd on $500 bail. He will be
tried at the July term.
F. J. Biume left on Saturday by the
Northern Pacific Railroad for Chicago,
where he will remain a short time and will
then visit San Francisco. He will be away
about two months.
Rev. R. M. Stevenson, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in Bozeman, was in
the city a few hour yesterday. The gen.
tleman is taking his summer vacation and
left on last evenings train for San Fran
cisco.
Mr.. Brayton Ives, a director OF the
Northern Pacific, arrived last night by spe.
cial train from the East. He will pay a
visit to the mines and mills of the neigh
borhood and proceed to-day to Anaconda.
Mr.. w. J.. S%tinson, formerly telegraph
operator of the Montana Union Railway at
Silver Bow, has been promoted to the posi-
ton OF assistant train dispatcher in the
Butte Office of that road.
Cans & Klein will furnish the uniforms
for the Parnell Rifles. They will have them
here before the 4th of July, and the COM
pay will wea them upon that day. About
seventy-ive have been ordered.
The teamster Of the perambulating steam
wood saw me, with an accident yesterday |
afternoon on East Park street. He had
the misfortune to fall under the wheel
serious fracture
couluy D1iSCOI, oil VIO O"plOyV y JIG |
Parrot, has purchased the interest of Nc.
Carthy & Co. in the Silver Palace saloon
GA West Park street. He is a great favor
lite with all his old associates, and their
best wishes are extended to him in his new
venture.
Despite the cold wind and the light snow
prevailing yesterday afternoon, the road
Silver Bow and Rocker was thronged
with pleasure-seekers in vehicles. The
roads are in splendid condition for develop
ing the qualities of fast teams.
A gentleman was hunting all over town
yesterday for thirty men to whom he
would give immediate honest employment
at laborers' wages, but declared he would
have to give it up, as he could not find men
to accept his offer.
At the Blue Bird pump-house men are at
work sinking a shaft close to Silver Bow
creek, with the view of increasing the sup.
ply Of water there. A new boiler is on the
ground ready to be put in position, which
will increase the mills facilities to the re-.
quired amount.
The members of the Turn Ver.in ap-
yesterday by the chairman to
frame a new Constitution and bylaws for
that society are j. Messing, Dave Wolf, L..
F. Schmidt, H. Mueller and R. Thierman.
They are to report at the first meeting in
July.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church
that on Friday they will give a
Tea, strawberry and ice cream
festival at the Pavilion, at which a piece
Of china will be presented to those taking
tea or coffee. The mere announcement OF
this fact ought to be a sufficient induce.
ment to secure an overlooking house.
In the Police Court yesterday John
.'Donnel was assessed 81 and costs for
being drunk on the streets. John Egan
was committed to Jail in default OF a fine
Of IS and costs for disturbance of the
Mike O'Donnell paid $40 and costs
ior assault and battery.
Mrs. Kate Suter will have a bearing in
Judge Dingevon's court pext Saturday at
a. M, for disturbing the peace and quiet
Of the neighborhood of East Park street
below the boiler works at the complaint
Of Mrs. Cath. H. Nichols. whom she is al
eyed to rave "called out of her name"
Aieck Woods. the POcatel|O barber men.